Richard Wagner and His World / / ed. by Thomas S. Grey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Berger, Karol,; Botstein, Leon,; Breckbill, David,; Brendel, Franz,; Chevalley, Heinrich,; Chorley, Henry,; Cicora, Mary A.,; Comettant, Oscar,; Deaville, James,; Dujardin, Edouard,; Dwight, John Sullivan,; Fauser, Annegret,; Glümer, Claire Von,; Goehr, Lydia,; Grey, Thomas S.,; Gura, Eugen,; Hamilton, Kenneth,; Hanslick, Eduard,; Huebner, Steven,; Huysmans, J. K.,; Jenkins, Newell Sill,; King, Brendan,; Liszt, Franz,; Lobe, Johann Christian,; Mandell, Charlotte,; Mendès, Catulle,; Pohl, Richard,; Schering, Arnold,; Scudo, Paul,; Seidl, Arthur,; Syer, Katherine,; Thorau, Christian,; Trippett, David,; Vazsonyi, Nicholas,; Wagner, Richard,; Wolzogen, Hans Von,; Wyzewa, Teodor De,; Zimmermann, J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Grey, Thomas S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 21
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 p.) :; 24 halftones. 50 musical examples.

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) aimed to be more than just a composer. He set out to redefine opera as a "total work of art" combining the highest aspirations of drama, poetry, the symphony, the visual arts, even religion and philosophy. Equally celebrated and vilified in his own time, Wagner c...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Permissions
• Part I. Essays
• From Page to Stage: Wagner as Regisseur
• Wagner and Liszt: Elective Affinities
• From Opera to Music Drama: Nominal Loss, Titular Gain
• Eine Kapitulation: Aristophanic Operetta as Cultural Warfare in 1870
• A Note on Tristan's Death Wish
• Guides for Wagnerites: Leitmotifs and Wagnerian Listening
• German Jews and Wagner
• Part II. Biographical Contexts
• Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient and Wagner's Dresden
• Catulle Mendès Visits Tribschen
• Recollections of Villa Wahnfried from Wagner's American Dentist
• Part III. Toward A Music Of The Future 1840-1860
• The Overture to Tannhäuser
• Letters to a Young Composer About Wagner
• Franz Brendel's Reconciliation Address
• Part IV. Wagner and Paris
• Wagner Admires Meyerbeer (Les Huguenots)
• Debacle at the Paris Opéra: Tannhäuser and the French Critics, 1861
• The Revue wagnérienne: Symbolism, Aestheticism, and Germanophilia
• Part V. The Bayreuth Era
• Press Releases from the Bayreuth Festival, 1876: An Early Attempt at Spin Control
• Hanslick contra Wagner: "The Ring Cycle Comes to Vienna" and "Parsifal Literature"
• Hans von Wolzogen's Parsifal (1887)
• Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth
• Part VI. The Complete Program Notes of Richard Wagner
• Wagner Introduces Wagner (and Beethoven): Program Notes Written for Concert Performances by and of Richard Wagner 1846-1880
• Index
• Notes on the Contributors